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Re: Lossless Compression. Compress anything down to <1kb?

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JJ (full name hidden to protect privacy) wrote:
) On 04/03/11 18:04, Thomas Richter wrote:
)> Hint: There is no free lunch. On average, you need at least y digits to
)> encode X, where y is the size of the original file to compress.
) There is this wonderful thing called FLAC - Lossless compression from 
) 1411kb/s down to ~900kb/s. Very good indeed.

If you're encoding music, yes.  That's because music tends to have very
specific features that can be exploited to compress it.
You can't use FLAC to compress pictures for example, or text.

) You can't use Pi or e to 
) losslessly encode data. That would be computationally VERY expensive.

No, it would be totally impossible.  There is no correlation
between Pi and e, and the data you would want to compress.

The price of computation is completely irrelevant.


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Re: Lossless Compression. Compress anything down to <1kb? "JJ (full name hidden to protect privacy)" <jjovereats-other@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-06 20:43 +0100
  Re: Lossless Compression. Compress anything down to <1kb? Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-06-06 20:32 +0000

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